I have popcorn in my pocket

[bluebren_livejournal]

And I have also, with varying degrees of recentness*:

-Seen Troy.

Since everyone and their local columnist has chosen to comment pretty much exclusively on a) the Briseis bit and b) Brad Pitt in general, I take it upon myself to talk about something else.

...Odysseus. He is a cool man without a cool part. This is very sad. Done well, of course, but his full awesomeness just doesn't really get to shine through. :( Personally, if I had to choose between being credited with the Trojan Horse or the Flaming Twigballs of Death as a military strategy, I would have chosen the Flaming Twigballs of Death.

-Gotten my 2 sciencey courses at the community college. Astronomy starts this Tuesday :O!

-Painted a lovely mural for the Japan-themed Vacation Bible School. Mostly it has trees. And mountains.

-Decided to get a digital camera for mah birthday! Now I just need to know what kind to get. Anyone who has anything to say on that, speak!

There, a public entry, just for you.

*I liked 'recency' better, but decided against it. It means I'm a horrible decision-maker and I have no self-confidence. So there.

Comments

[phreid.livejournal.com]

"the Flaming Twigballs of Death"
--that shall be my new Thing of the Day by Which to Swear.

We must see picturage!

And, my hair is growing faster.

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

...But... picturage of what?

[phreid.livejournal.com]

Of yer mural-age, of course. silly.

[phrotus.livejournal.com]

Astronomy! Coolness.

I think Odysseus comes out looking like a pretty cool guy, anyway, in the movie... What awesomeness of his was cut out that you object to? Other than the impossible task of including Ajax and Odysseus bickering over who got Achilles's armour, which doesn't paint all that flattering a picture anyway...

Somebody said they were talking about making the Odyssey soon as kind of a sequel, but what with the decision to excise the actual gods from the storyline (aside from, of course, a not-so-subtle indoctrination into getting you to roll your eyes and go "oh, geez" every time that one guy said something about a sign from the gods), I'm not so sure that could work at all. o_o I mean, you can have guys fighting a war without the gods running around doing stuff, but I sure don't think you can have magical imprisonment / turning into pigs / lotus eaters / supernatural appearance of whirlpools / Polyphemus without them.


...anyway, how do you think I feel, having devoted my entire senior year to the Aeneid, and him downgraded to some guy?


And hey, I gotta know-- what did you think of the Briseis thing and/or Brad Pitt in general?

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

Well, he was a cool guy, sure, but not quite in the same way he was SUPPOSED to be, I guess. His hit-to-miss ratio in persuading people, for example, was particularly bad. Maybe it's just me, you know, but I thought he was supposed to be famously good at that? Maybe? So after awhile he was just like, 'Screw this, I'm gonna go build something.'

Alas, Silla has called my bluff of having actually read the Iliad in any detail beyond book 3. -_-

You are right in your sizing-up of this possible sequel. o_o Not so workable. Unless they do a thing like, "Oh geez, we were wrong, the gods ARE important, and they just didn't help us at Troy because ((*the scriptwriters make something up here*))." *shrug* Anyway, I'm wishing 'em luck, because then we would have another Sean Bean movie.

What did I think of the Briseis thing? Nothing very positive. As hinted above, I'm not too invested in the original story or anything, but it just.... aggh! Wouldn't happen! Never mind the annoyance of being able to tell exactly where they were going with it early on. Or effectively making her the female lead. I don't know if they did it because they felt like they needed a strong woman in there somewhere, or if having Achilles Grow As A Person was just part of the plot to make Brad Pitt look EVEN BETTER.

...Which segues nicely into my second point. :p What do I think of Brad Pitt in general? ...I don't know. He'll always be Louis to me, actually. Not because I particularly liked that movie, or him in it ((I didn't)). It's just the first movie I saw where he used his Nobly Impressive Guy voice, which tends not to change no matter which Nobly Impressive Guy he is. o_o Whatever.

[tiros.livejournal.com]

"It's just the first movie I saw where he used his Nobly Impressive Guy voice, which tends not to change no matter which Nobly Impressive Guy he is."

This means that you have not seen Snatch, aw man, it's such a great film.
Can we see a pic of the mural?

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

If I *had* a picture of it, you know I'd show it. ;p I'll try to get one.

[odifyingpip.livejournal.com]

Must get back to homework, but I wanna comment! So in short:
- Flaming Twigballs of Death all the way.
- "Painted a lovely mural for the Japan-themed Vacation Bible School." How cool!!!! You should take a picture once you get your digital camera ^__^